How to Use personal property in a Sentence

personal property

noun
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  • Where did personal property tax come from in the first place?
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
  • Does that personal property have to be under the roof of your house to be covered?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • The robber left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash from the register as well as some of the clerk’s personal property, Gay said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The first two are owned by the sovereign in a trust, and pass directly from monarch to monarch, while the latter is the Queen’s personal property.
    — Jennifer Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
  • After that, the city will rebate half of the personal property taxes paid by the market for five years.
    — Kara Carlson, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The locks cannot be changed or your personal property removed.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Documents say a large amount of personal property was strewn across the road.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
  • But if the equipment is financed as personal property, it can’t be valued in an appraisal of the home.
    — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The house and the personal property inside were destroyed as a result.
    — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2021
  • One of the suspects struck the victim with his hand and the others held him down while personal property was removed from his pockets.
    — Allana Haynes, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The car contained the driver’s personal property and cell phone.
    — cleveland, 23 Dec. 2021
  • All lanes need to be free of personal property so that everyone can move freely.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The woman’s son confronted the man, who claimed to be looking for personal property that a drunk friend threw out the car window the night before.
    — cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Once inside, the former boyfriend grabbed the woman by her hair, dragged her down stairs, and stole her cell phone and other personal property.
    — cleveland, 13 May 2022
  • The Lebeau couple and their two dogs made it out of their home uninjured, but their house of 20 years and most personal property was destroyed and their two cars were damaged.
    — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 14 Nov. 2019
  • For the Goldman project, half the property taxes are to be abated for 10 years, and half the business and personal property taxes for five years.
    — Dallas News, 24 June 2022
  • Fortner, who has one of the world's largest private collections of Monroe's personal property, says the late actress wanted the dress to be one that was unique to her.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022
  • The officer met with hospital police at the Brew Garden to try to find the man’s personal property.
    — cleveland, 23 June 2022
  • Real or personal property, such as a house or a car, is often sold at auction.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • What do all of these highly personal properties all have in common?
    — Christine Chitnis, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Under Arizona law, they were considered personal property, which in the event of a tenant’s death can't be touched by a landlord for up to 15 days.
    — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The woman was charged with simple assault and the man was charged with assault on a female and damage to personal property, police said.
    — NBC News, 12 May 2021
  • It was filled with personal property and had a sheet a paper displaying a swastika.
    — cleveland, 27 May 2021
  • The broad term refers to theft of personal property, including package theft.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • This is the first time the agency is auctioning personal property taken from a weed business.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • For starters, NFTs are personal property, in a way most other digital goods aren’t.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The provision, named for a section of the tax code, used to apply to many types of personal property, including farm equipment and livestock.
    — Will Parker, WSJ, 6 May 2021
  • That said, give at least an hourlong pre-rental walk-through to go over systems thoroughly and impress upon the renter that this is your beloved personal property.
    — Chris Dixon, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Personal Property Loans: Renters and homeowners alike can apply for these loans to replace personal property that was damaged or destroyed during the disaster.
    — True Tamplin, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The agency helps businesses after disasters, but also helps individual homeowners and renters with loans to cover the cost of fixing their homes or other personal property.
    — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024

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